As far as I can tell, it's for patent reasons. They have a history of doing the same thing in similar instances with no more explanation than "the lawyers said so."
On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 10:24:46 PM UTC-7, Henrik Johansson wrote: > > The second one, the redhat Bugzilla does. They only want to ship a select > set of curves distro wide apparently. If it is motivated by security or > something else is less clear. > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 07:08 Ian Lance Taylor <ia...@golang.org > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 9:18 PM, <jcjosh...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> > >> > Nothing is stopping them, but people aren't going to go to the >> distribution >> > docs for the Go standard library - they're going to go to the official >> docs. >> >> It is not sustainable for us to provide distro-specific docs for >> changes made by distros. They need to provide their own docs. That >> is unfortunate but I don't see any other workable approach. >> >> A better strategy here would be for them to come to us and ask us to >> make the change and explain why it is appropriate. The links you >> provided do not explain it. >> >> Ian >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
